Stock Photo - 08 March 2019, North Rhine-Westphalia, Meschede: An inscription on the opposite side of an obelisk on the so-called ""French Cemetery"" in Meschede commemorates Russian SS victims who were shot dead in Warstein in 1945. The memorial had stood first at the place of the shootings. More than 70 years after barbaric Nazi crimes in the Sauerland region, experts have gained new insights into three mass executions at the end of the war after extensive excavations. More than 400 finds had been found at three crime scenes in the Arnsberg Forest, where 208 Polish and Russian forced laborers were murdered by firing squads in March 1945. Photo: Bernd Thissen/dpa. - Meschede/North Rhine-Westphalia/Germany